Common-area rules where the commons are
11×17 wall guides in the laundry room, shared kitchen, and study lounges answer the rules for that room - booking, cleanup, hours - right at the point of friction.
CleverStay for dormitories & student housingMove-in week, minus the group-chat chaos
Every August the same five hundred questions arrive: laundry cards, shared-kitchen rules, quiet hours, “who's the RA tonight.” CleverStay puts a QR sign in each common area and routes what it can't answer to whoever is actually on duty.
Building guides is free, forever. Your 14-day Pro trial starts when your printed cards arrive, not before.
Built for move-in week and every week after
Escalation that follows the RA duty roster
Unanswered questions go by SMS to the on-call RA, with a fallback, honoring quiet hours. When duty rotates, the routing rotates - residents never need to know whose night it is.
International students, first-language answers
One authored guide, readable in ten languages. Move-in week doesn't require a translator on staff.
No app, no account, no adoption battle
Students scan with the camera and ask. There's nothing to install and no login to forget, which is why it gets used where the housing app didn't.
The handbook nobody kept
Residence life communicates through paper, blasts, and door-knocks. Here is where each one leaks.
Today
A printed handbook handed out at move-in
Recycled by October, cited by no one.
With CleverStay
A QR sign in every common area, current all year because it's versioned, not printed-and-forgotten.
Today
Flyers on cork boards plus all-hall email blasts
Open rates near zero, exactly when the kitchen-cleanup dispute is live.
With CleverStay
Answers pulled on demand, in the resident's language, at the moment of the question.
Today
Knocking on the RA's door at midnight
Or the wrong RA's door - the duty roster lives on a paper by the elevator.
With CleverStay
One scan reaches the guide first and the on-duty RA second - by design, in that order.
“Our RAs spent September as human FAQ machines. The laundry-room sign alone killed the single most repeated question in the building. Escalations now land on whoever is on duty, which the RAs might appreciate most of all.”
Jordan W.
Residence life coordinator · 300-bed hall
Student Housing300 Beds
FAQs
Student housing questions, answered
What residence life teams ask before rolling this out.
Not quite your setup?
CleverStay works the same way everywhere a guest needs an answer. These pages speak to setups next door to yours.
Apartments & multi-family
Laundry, package room, and parking answered before the office phone rings.
See the page →Long-term rentals
Rent portal, maintenance requests, and trash day behind one QR on the fridge.
See the page →Industrial & mixed-use
Dock procedures and after-hours access on engraved, weatherproof signs.
See the page →Or start from the top: see everything CleverStay does.
Make move-in week boring.
Author your hall guide free and put a sign in every common area. The RA on duty gets the escalations, not the FAQ.